Speaking at the official launch of the National Strategic Development Plan 2019-2023 in Phnom Penh, Mr Hun Sen said steps to increase the power supply are ongoing and apologised for any inconvenience caused if blackouts do occur. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Construction on a $12.5 million solar farm in Svay Rieng province will begin in the next few days, and will feed 10 megawatts (MW) a day into the national grid, officials announced yesterday. The 10-hectare site in Bavet City will be built and operated by Sunseap lass='cambodia-color'>...

Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn defended the government before the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Saturday, saying that the ruling party was being held to unrealistic expectations of a “perfect democracy” while the opposition was “committing very serious crimes.” Delivering his first major address to lass='cambodia-color'>...

Citing a seven-year-old defamation case, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Sam Rainsy, forcing the travelling Cambodia National Rescue Party president to choose whether to stay abroad or return and face a two-year prison term.The warrant, stemming from lass='cambodia-color'>...

The government has announced plans to upgrade a sub-decree on torture prevention to the status of royal decree in order to comply with its international obligations, but observers said yesterday that the proposed changes will do little to bolster the body’s impartiality.The decision was confirmed lass='cambodia-color'>...

Experts are warning that the Lower Mekong Basin may soon face depLeting fish stocks, further erosion of the coastLine and rising saLinity that wiLL make rice fieLds uncuLtivabLe. An extensive, government- funded study by the Vietnam NationaL Mekong Committee estimates the vaLue of fish from Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

Despite recent high-profile cases of monastic child sex abuse, the organisers of a national conference for monks have left the issue off of the agenda, a move met with criticism yesterday by child protection advocates.At a press conference to launch the 24th congress of Buddhist lass='cambodia-color'>...

Education Ministry officials said yesterday that there will be greater participation by disabled children in schools, announcing a plan that would allow disabled youngsters to attend schools with the rest of the country’s children by early next year. Im Koch, a secretary of state for the lass='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition spokesman Yim Sovann said yesterday that if any of the CNRP’s more than 400 new commune chiefs who won office on Sunday cannot follow through on the party’s campaign pledges, they will “give up” their positions.Sovann said the Cambodia National Rescue Party had made lass='cambodia-color'>...

In an attempt to replenish the nation’s shellfish stocks, the Fisheries Administration has released seven million young lobsters into Cambodian rivers and the Tonle Sap lake this year, officials said. Cambodia harvests about 100 tons of wild lobsters annually, although the market demand is for about lass='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of human-rights activists are staging flash “faint-ins” at high-street retailers across Europe to illustrate the high incidence of mass fainting in Cambodia’s apparel factories. Protestors from the Clean Clothes Campaign, an alliance of organizations in 15 European countries dedicated to improving working conditions in lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia approved a total of $479.68 million in new investment projects between January and June with more than 70 new ventures in the pipeline, according to date released yesterday by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). Investments in the garment sector continued to dominate new investments, comprising 49 of lass='cambodia-color'>...

The United States on Monday criticized a decision by the struggling Asian nation of laos to build the first dam across the mainstream of the Mekong River, a project that environmentalists warn could affect tens of millions of livelihoods and trigger a dam-building spree along lass='cambodia-color'>...

Women sales promoters working in bars in Cambodia are occasionally exposed to harassment by customers varying from being coerced into drinking and in some cases, being subjected to sexual abuse. Cambodia Carlsberg Group and The Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (lO) have joined forces in a lass='cambodia-color'>...

An ambitions new agricultural development project backed by a former US diplomat is aiming to dramatically revamp the sector and bring profits back into the hands of farmers. Sichan Siv, a Cambodian with dual citizenship who spent five years serving as US ambassador to the UN, lass='cambodia-color'>...

Amid the mounting threats of violence—be it through a coup or full-blown civil war—residents in Phnom Penh said Wednesday they were unperturbed by such an eventuality and that the country has progressed beyond the days of warfare and political upheaval. “I’m not that worried. I think lass='cambodia-color'>...

Four families in Oddar Meanchey province’s Samrong town have filed a complaint with their commune hall, alleging that a military official and a village chief are trying to block them from receiving land titles because the families support the Cambodian National Rescue Party. The families and lass='cambodia-color'>...

The deal between national flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAl) and Royal Group of Cambodia (RCG) to form Cambodia Airlines Co.  ltd. is set to be completed within the next two months. This was according to Ma. Cecilia Pesayco, assistant corporate secretary of PAl’s parent firm PAl lass='cambodia-color'>...

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Monday that China congratuLated the Cambodian PeopLe’s Party (CPP) on its victory in the country’s generaL eLection. Xi Jinping, generaL secretary of the Communist Party of China CentraL Committee, and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang have sent congratuLatory messages to CPP Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

Deputy Prime Minister Sok An has accused two independent election watchdogs of conspiring with the opposition to undermine the election. Speaking at the Council of Ministers on Monday, An said that the Committee for Free and Fair Elections (Comfrel) and the US-government-funded National Democratic Institute (NDI) lass='cambodia-color'>...